Your Job, Your Rights: A Migrant’s Guide to Protection in Korea
By Saqib Sharif || Last summer, a disturbing video from a brick factory in Naju, near Gwangju, shocked the nation. The footage showed a 31-year-old Sri Lankan worker tied to … Read More
Inside the Gwangju News: The Merry Mexican with a Mission – Luis Andrés
Each month, this column spotlights one of our regular contributors to the Gwangju News, giving readers a chance to learn more about the diverse voices behind the magazine. These writer … Read More
Learning Korean Taught Me More Than Korean: Reflections on Korea’s Language Classrooms
By Reeti Roy || When I enrolled in a Korean language program in Seoul, I expected to spend my days memorizing vocabulary lists, wrestling with unfamiliar grammar, and trying to … Read More
The Environment: Chain of Thoughts – Solar Energy for the Home
By Chung Hyunhwa || I have been longing to use solar energy for my home, but it has not happened yet, except for little outdoor garden solar lamps. (They are … Read More
The Heat Beneath Our Feet: Gwangju’s Summer Islands
By Siddhant K. || Step off the bus on Gwangju’s Geumnam-ro at 9 o’clock on a summer evening, and the day’s heat is still there, radiating up from the asphalt … Read More
AI in Gwangju: The City’s Vision for Becoming an AI Hub
By Muhammad Umar Tahir || Gwangju is preparing to turn the entire city into one enormous artificial intelligence laboratory. Roads, hospitals, government offices, cultural spaces, universities, and even ordinary neighborhoods … Read More
The Calcuttan in Korea: Jinju – A City of Returning Histories
By Reeti Roy || Jinju is one of those places that refuses to stay contained inside a single narrative. You arrive thinking you are looking at a regional Korean city, … Read More
Book Review: The Corrections
Reviewed by Michael Attard || The Corrections By Jonathan Franzen 566 pages, Picador, 2002 (Original 2001) The family grew up in the American mid-western town of Saint Jude. Saint Jude … Read More